Avidan Emanuel

Avidan Yegorovich Emanuel (1965-2008) was a Russian-Jewish criminal who worked as an enforcer for the Faustin crime family of the Russian Mafia. In 2008, he was killed in the Port Morris warehouse shootout by Niko Bellic after kidnapping Roman Bellic.

Biography
Avidan Yegorovich Emanuel was born in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union in 1965 to a family of Ukrainian Jews, and he became involved with the Russian Mafia in the USSR. Emanuel was recruited into Mikhail Faustin's organized crime syndicate, the Faustin crime family, during the late 1980s, and he moved to the United States with the rest of the family during the mid-1990s, exploiting loopholes in an immigration treaty between the USA and Russia. Emanuel became known as a cruel enforcer for the Faustin family in New York City, and he was responsible for torturing Roman Bellic after the family captured him in 2008.

Death
Emanuel and several other Russian mobsters guarded Roman Bellic at a warehouse off Lompoc Avenue in Port Morris, The Bronx, where Emanuel beat him up and sent pictures of him to Dimitri Rascalov, who then sent the pictures to Roman's cousin Niko. Niko Bellic, enraged at Rascalov, headed to the warehouse and killed dozens of Russian mobsters as a one-man army, and he confronted Emanuel in the foreman's office. Emanuel held Roman Bellic at gunpoint as a human shield, so Bellic shot Emanuel in the head with a sniper rifle, killing him and saving his cousin.